Sociology: Work & Labour

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 19...

Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degrees. It takes a detailed loo...

Climbing the Ladder (1986) looks at the fundamentals for women breaking the glass ceiling, examining the barriers to progress and the ways to succe...

Financial Aid through Social Work (1979) examines the way in which financial aid through social work has been used and the consequences of such use...

Eliminating Sexual Harassment at Work (1994) gives a clear picture of what sexual harassment is, the effects it has on people and organisations, an...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

A convergent manufacturing platform is defined as a system that synergistically combines heterogeneous materials and processes (e.g., additive, sub...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage t...

Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the sa...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

To effectively mature and transition DoD manufacturing science and technology advances into production, DoD must have access to a robust and respon...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturi...

This book works to unpack and explicate womens personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how woman has ...

The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting trans...

This book is about the urgent need to have time for health. It's about why people dont exercise, rest or eat healthy food even when they know they ...

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new moveme...

Anhand von verschiedenen Fallanalysen erhalten Sie einen Überblick über aktuelle Veränderungen in verschiedenen Arbeitstätigkeiten. Mit Hilfe von A...

The oft-used phrase Money makes the world go round not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant imp...

In the 1890s, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexicos largest commercial center for coffee preparation and...

Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing rationality through scien...

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North Ame...

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North Ame...

This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and pla...

The Covid-19 pandemic both popularized and politicized the designation of essential work. Interrogating the dialectics of essential work, this volu...

Place branding is often a response to inter-place competition and discussed as if it operated in a vacuum, ignoring the needs of local communities....

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and expe...

Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent ...

This book explores the connection between British and German officer cadets perceptions of the past and their motivations for enlisting in the mili...

Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act ...

This innovative interdisciplinary collection confronts the worldwide challenge of women's under-representation in science through an interrogation ...

To thrive in academia, wellbeing must be understood and nurtured. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic has left the landscape of higher educ...

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the w...

This volume explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples interactions with public sector bureaucracies. The authors featured here conside...

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is ta...

In todays world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives...